'Harlequin beetle on citron fruit' Ken is holding up Lot 1

is holding up Lot 1

This was Diana's first ski holiday since her tragic trip with Charles to Klosters three years ago

This painting forms part of plate 10 of 'The Thanatophidia of India: being a description of the venomous snakes of the Indian peninsula

Interior view of Queen Victoria's railway carriage

'Harlequin beetle on citron fruit' Ken is holding up Lot 1Study of a harlequin beetle (Acrocinus longimanus) on a citron fruit (Cirtus medica) with, elsewhere, a moth in stages of development. Plate 28 from the book Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium, in qua Erucae ac Vermes Surinamenses, cum omnibus suis transformationibus by Maria Sibylla Merian (Amsterdam, 1705). Inscribed lower left: 'J. Mulder Sculp.', and with annotations by Sir Hans Sloane (1660 1753) The entomologist and artist Maria Sibylla